Today I hacked a prototype of zyl, my framework for
REST-applications (which include dynamically generated websites,
database views etc.) based on Ruby and Webrick.
I already have pipelined data transformations, a flexible URI parsing
system (modeled like mod_rewrite) and XML accessibility (XSLT only,
so far).
Initially, I used to pipe to xsltproc, but one fork per page doesn’t
make the thing better than CGI, so I choose to use ruby-xslt by
Gregoire Lejeune. They need a recent libxslt, which is when the
trouble started. I’ll not tell you about the hacks I needed to make
that package compile for my debian…
I’ll probably model my CMS based on ideas described in
Toxical, which then can be
wget-ted and be published on static servers (if needed).
NP: Lamb—Zero